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Covid symptoms may be mistaken for vaccine side effects
Israeli study of vaccinated healthcare workers warns doctors to test people complaining of post-vaccination symptoms because they could be infected.
Coronavirus testing station in Jerusalem. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90
Published online in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal
Emerging Infectious Diseases, the study found that 22 of the workers developed lab-confirmed Covid-19 from 1 to 10 days after immunization with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
“Clinicians should not dismiss postvaccination symptoms as vaccine-related and should promptly test for COVID-19,” write co-authors Sharon Amit, Sharon Alexsandra Beni, Asaf Biber, Amir Grinberg, Eyal Leshem and Gili Regev-Yochay from Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan.